The Jewish Working Group for a Just Farm Bill includes representatives from American Jewish World Service, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, Hazon, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger and the Union for Reform Judaism. Several spoke on Capitol Hill earlier this year about the bill.

The Rev. J. Wayne Clark is chaplain and director of religious life at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. He also is president of the National Association of College and University Chaplains.

The Interreligious Working Group on Domestic Human Needs connects faith-based and faith-affiliated groups that are working to end poverty in the U.S. The group aims to focus attention during the farm bill debate on shielding from budget cuts those federal programs that help the hungry.

Stan Dotson is dean of LifeWorks, a civic leadership development program at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, N.C. and founding Director of In Our Elements, an organization that provides resources to help individuals and groups contribute to a better world by doing what they love.

June 26, 2004, The Washington Post article about religious denominations support of marijuana for medical purposes.

Michael Beaty is a philosophy professor and vice provost for faculty development at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. His focus is on Philosophy of Religion and Christian Higher Education.

The site provides a summary of the faith for reporters.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which issued a statement April 12, 2012, decrying the House Agriculture Committee’s vote to cut $33 billion from food stamps. “If there’s a more misguided, mean-spirited and counterproductive way to address decades of deficits in this country, the Mayors of the United States can’t think of one,” […]

April 24, 2013, Religious News Service article about religious Americans’ views on the legalization of marijuana.